Sophie Bledsoe Aberle (1899 - ?) was an American anthropologist, physician and nutritionist. She received a Ph.D. in Genetics from Stanford University in 1927 and an M.D. from Yale University in 1930.[1] Aberle studied Native Americans in the southwestern U.S. She, and Dr. Gerty T. Cori, were appointed to the first National Science Board by President Truman in 1951. [2]
Aberle worked with the Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1935 to 1944. She then took a position with National Research Council until 1949, and from 1949 to 1954 at the University of New Mexico.[3] She worked for the Bernalillo County Indian Hospital until 1970 when she returned to the University of New Mexico.